Underground Opera Cast
Louise Gavin
Louise's love for the stage and performing has seen
her singing, acting and dancing since she was five. She
has successfully completed her Grade 6 AMEB in drama and in
2005 refined her acting skills by completing a NIDA short course.
Her engrossing vocal talent comes from years of tuition from Lesley
Purvis, of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and the Queensland
University, but it is her passion and charisma for her art that is evident in
every role she plays whether on stage or screen.
She has performed as ensemble with the Really Useful Group at the Lyric Theatre in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Her other productions include the pantomime of Beauty and the Beast, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and His Majesty's Pleasure.
She has also appeared as Elizabeth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the Nash Theatre Company, as Cosette in the enormously successful 2005 season of Les Miserables and Mrs Phagan in the first major Australian production of Jason Robert Brown's Parade with the ground breaking Warehaus Theatre Company.
2006 was highlighted by her outstanding performanceas Maureen in the Starlite/Schonell season of the Broadway smash hit rock opera Rent. She later toured to Kuala Lumpur as a backup singer for Max Pelicano "the worlds renown Elvis impersonator". The beginning of 2007 saw Louise perform as Jane Smart, the repressed cellist in the Turkish Delight production of The Witches of Eastwick, a role made famous by Cher in the motion picture.
Louise has also had featured roles with Warner Bros. studios in the TV se- ries of Flipper and Beastmaster and has a minor role in the NBC mini series of The Starter Wife with Debora Messing. She has also been in several short films and commercials. Louise has recently finish a season of Alan Ayckbourne's Seasons Greetings for the Villanova Players and is now preparing for her performance in Broadway Gold for The Underground Opera Company.
